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Classical Comics - which is publishing Henry V along with Mac 00004000 beth, and plans to tackle Jane Eyre, Great Expectations and Frankenstein - has gone even further to entice reluctant classroom recruits, producing its graphic novels in three different versions. There is the "original text", with all of Shakespeare's play poured into the characters' speech bubbles; there is the "plain text" version, where the Jacobean language is translated into contemporary English; and, for the mere... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
MHS Student Outstanding In Shakespeare Contest Feb 29, 2008
Senior high student Shawn Guilfoy has brought a new kind of recognition to McConnellsburg High School one that doesn t involve the usual academics or sports with a recent standout performance of Shakespeare s inspiring pre-battle speech from Henry V in the Pittsburgh Public Theater s 14th annual Shakespeare Monologue Contest ... (In the scene, Henry V rallies his troops, urging them on to one more supreme effort: Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more ... The contest, Shawn said, was... (Fulton County News, PA)
Something wicked this way comes Feb 26, 2008
Classical Comics - which is publishing Henry V along with Macbeth, and plans to tackle Jane Eyre, Great Expectations and Frankenstein - has gone even further to entice reluctant classroom recruits, producing their graphic novels in three different versions ... But it will also, surely, suck some more young readers into the brilliant darkness of this play ; Macbeth and Henry V are published today by Classical Comics, at 9. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Have no fear, underdog is here Feb 20, 2008
In the dog world, it was Rocky Balboa going the distance against Apollo Creed, Henry V triumphing at Agincourt, and the Giants beating the Patriots - all rolled into one. When a beagle named Uno became the first of his breed to win the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in its 132-year history, the normally genteel crowd went nuts. (Globe and Mail)
The comeback curmudgeon Feb 9, 2008
Mr. McCain responded by quoting a full page from Henry V. He is a voracious, eclectic and, by all accounts, furiously fast reader, a student of history and literature who has an uncanny knack for absorbing information. One friend described him as a "human trivia machine." "He's got this colossal memory," said Colonel Bud Day, who was Mr. McCain's ranking officer in the Hanoi prison camp. (Globe and Mail)
Twelfth Night Feb 8, 2008
"My first experience of Shakespeare was standing up in front of a class [to read Henry V] and it was a horrific experience," Austin recalls. "I thought, 'I want to be an actor, I'll get up' and I was the first volunteer. I started and said two words, stumbled over the next word, the teacher prompted me and it probably took me half an hour to get through the speech. By the end I was in a pool of sweat and I was shaking. I have no idea what I said - after a while, my hearing just went. I sat down... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
* 'The Magic Flute' plays a pretty tune Feb 6, 2008
Ever since his directorial debut in 1989 with Shakespeare's Henry V, the director has tirelessly made classic plays accessible to a new generation. It must be said that he has not always been successful: His 2006 adaptation of As You Like It, set in feudal Japan, will hopefully sink quietly into oblivion. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Wrestling: Tomah, Viroqua head MVC/Coulee meet Feb 3, 2008
Welcome to Inside Preps. Heartland Country Co-op. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Plenty of options for Super Sunday Feb 1, 2008
And the choices are: "Copenhagen" (American Repertory Theatre, 617-547-8300, ), "Third" (Huntington Theatre Company, Boston University stage, 617-266-0800, ), and "Henry V" (Actors' Shakespeare Project, Downstairs at the Garage, Cambridge, 866-811-4111, ), all at 2 p.m.; and, at 3, "Adrift in Macao" (Lyric Stage Company, 617-585-5678, ). Visit from New York. (Boston Globe)
Henry V. Celentano Jan 31, 2008
Thursday, January 31. ADDRESS: 82 N. Ocean Avenue. (Suffolk Life Newspapers, NY)
BBC makes ten dramas out of the Iraq crisis Jan 26, 2008
Hopefully luvvie Brannagh won't start Shakespearing everything by doing the rousing speech in the style of Henry V.. Ben, London, UK. (Times Online)
A life of their own Jan 26, 2008
Take Shakespeare's Henry V. If you asked most people to separate King Harry and the Welsh captain Fluellen into Forsterian camps, they would award Harry roundness and Fluellen flatness. The King is a large part, Fluellen a minor one. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
A spare but richly told 'Henry V' Jan 17, 2008
Henry V' is spare but richly told ... The latest: staging "Henry V," with its vast battles and its epic sweep from England to France and back, in a cramped basement - with just five actors ... Partly it works because Shakespeare knew that no stage could ever hold all the scenes he conjures here, and so he repeatedly uses the character of the Chorus to remind us that we are watching a play, that the world is far bigger than this wooden platform, and that the actors must therefore implore the... (Boston Globe)
Tout le monde Jan 12, 2008
This was the week when Britain's theatre community went all Henry V on the subject of funding, berating the head of the Arts Council over cuts to some of Britain's most successful theatres. What's terrifying for the cultural consumer of moderate means is that producers will surely respond to the sell-on problem in the way they have in the US: by introducing so-called premium tickets. (Guardian Unlimited)
All together now, US troops stand firm Jan 10, 2008
- William Shakespeare, Henry V. We're stuck over here God knows how long, just waiting and sweating it out, and finding out things about yourself that, by God, it don't pay to know. (Asia Times Online)
Critics' picks - Theater Jan 7, 2008
Local Search Site Search. THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING. (Boston Globe)
This King, this courtier, these Kevin klines Jan 2, 2008
By the time he tackled Hamlet, Kline had already played Shakespeare's Richard III and Henry V for the Public Theater, as well as the Pirate King in the celebrated "Pirates of Penzance" with Linda Ronstadt. He would undertake "Hamlet" again, directing himself, at the Public in 1990. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Trinity Rep play is filled with memories - and blueberry pie Nov 30, 2007
Actor's Shakespeare Project has moved its five-person production of "Henry V" from Jimmy Tingle's Off-Broadway Theater to Downstairs at the Garage, 38 JFK St., Harvard Square, Cambridge. The play, which runs Jan. 12-Feb. (Boston Globe)
Obituaries 11-27-07 Nov 27, 2007
She was preceded in death by her husband, Henry V. Eoff. She leaves her daughter, Linda Wages and husband, Larry of Salem, Ark. (Seantobia Democrat, MS)
DANCING WITH THE (REAL) STARS Nov 25, 2007 10 comments Nov 21, 2007 Secret livesFacts needn't get in the way of cracking historical yarns Nov 19, 2007 Branagh to play Tudor sleuth Nov 18, 2007 To be or not to be, the CEO? Nov 10, 2007 Newsweek: Teaching literature to soldiers Nov 2, 2007 Stunt casting can't salvage this stolid remake Oct 26, 2007 Lifting the curtain Oct 24, 2007 Tony Winner Schreiber May Join Jackman in "Wolverine" Film Oct 22, 2007 Fans share a dream of glory Oct 21, 2007 Have you met Chuck? Oct 21, 2007 TV's everyman has a new name Oct 19, 2007 Papers whip up patriotic fervour Oct 13, 2007 'Elizabeth: The Golden Age': A cloak-and-dagger thriller brimming with wild energy Oct 13, 2007 Broccoli v foie gras: two nations prepare for Le Crunch in Paris Oct 13, 2007 Michael Caine swaps roles in 'Sleuth' remake Oct 11, 2007 The Golden Age is a pretender to the throne Oct 9, 2007 War on expenses getting expensive Oct 8, 2007 George Grizzard, 79; versatile stage, TV and film actor originated role of Nick in 'Virginia Woolf' Oct 4, 2007 The weekend's TV Oct 2, 2007 All change at Lady Macbeth Sep 26, 2007 From Laurence Olivier to David Watson: Once and future reasons for cheer on the London stage Sep 26, 2007 Lee Grant's Outtakes Sep 18, 2007 Recap the Emmys: Parties, photos and behind-the-scenes Sep 18, 2007 Chungmuro film festival to focus on classics Sep 17, 2007 Sleuth gang bonds over the Bard Sep 14, 2007 Wal-Mart and the Battle of Vermont Sep 12, 2007 Shakespeare: The dossier Sep 12, 2007 Carolyn Connolly follows her passion Sep 11, 2007 The Greatest Education Lab Sep 8, 2007 Christian Bale: Heartthrob or thespian? Sep 5, 2007 Diana memorial: order of service Aug 31, 2007 Fields of Drama: Shakespeare Rules Aug 30, 2007 From Tarantino to the Turner ... Aug 28, 2007 FedEx Cup is golf's dead horse Aug 24, 2007 More than meets the eye Aug 24, 2007 She's the most likable part of HBO's 'As You Like It' Aug 21, 2007 The trouble with Larry Aug 4, 2007 Python's nourishing nonsense a weighty role Aug 2, 2007 Kanye West mixes manga and music Aug 1, 2007 More of this story Jul 28, 2007 Taking on a weighty problem Jul 23, 2007 Classical climax fits a magical saga Jul 21, 2007 Read Article Jul 19, 2007 Olivier acted as secret agent Jul 17, 2007 Theatrical Pub Series opens July 21 in Westerly,br> Jul 13, 2007 British classics take on the blockbusters Jul 11, 2007 Harry Potter's Magical Tale Might Be Truer To Life Than You Think Jul 6, 2007 Daniel Radcliffe Dishes On Harry Potter's First Kiss, 'Deathly Hallows' Theories Jul 6, 2007 What's on your top 10 movies list? Jun 30, 2007 What Blair really did next Jun 27, 2007 Jack of all trades Jun 26, 2007 Shakespeare's Problem Plays Jun 24, 2007 Waiting for Beckett Jun 24, 2007 Garden plan beginning to bloom at Ewing Manor Jun 15, 2007 NEW DIANA BOOK DRAWS VIPS Jun 14, 2007 Stringer celebrates 'Diana' Jun 14, 2007 Bring on the dancing hobbits Jun 14, 2007 Whence the !@#$?: Jun 9, 2007 Is Liev Schreiber Today's Best Actor? Jun 8, 2007 English star's films defy age (Gary Arnold) May 31, 2007 Band of brothers: Immortal words to honor the warriors May 29, 2007 Olivier's Shakespeare (Gary Arnold) May 24, 2007 SUZANNE FIELDS: Pomp and prejudice May 24, 2007 Great pretender May 23, 2007
Sunday, November 25, 2007 Last Update: 06:05 AM EST. November 25, 2007 -- Paul Johnson's books are like wrecking balls. (New York Post -- Opinions)
David Thomson's Biographical Dictionary of Film #26 Nov 23, 2007
In his own Henry V (1989), Branagh showed what a convenient blind eye Olivier had turned to war and its real brutalities. As an actor, Branagh was unquenchable - for television, he did anything and everything: Jimmy Porter in a revival of Look Back in Anger; Oswald in Ghosts; a superb, self-effacing Guy Pringle in Fortunes of War, and a remake of O'Neill's Strange Interlude in which he starred with Glenda Jackson. (Guardian Unlimited)
The date chosen was built on the thanksgiving celebrations commemorated since Henry VIIIs return from France in 1537 ... Through the plays under the name of Shakespeare, he brought to the English illiterate population (his plays had touring companies) the notion on the limitations of monarchs (Macbeth, Richard III, Julius Caesar, etc), the distinctions between law and justice (Merchant of Venice), and the importance of English Patriotism (Henry V). (Human Events Online)
Stirring stuff: Olivier as Henry V ... And on her rearing white horse in a glittering suit of armour, she is Henry V at the siege of Honfleur (or at least Kenneth Branagh's version of him in his remake of Laurence Olivier's classic film), as she urges on her troops: "Let them come with the armies of hell, they will not pass!" ... In Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Shekhar Kapoor - a former Bollywood director - deliberately recapitulates the over-heated encounters between Bette Davis and Errol Flynn... (BBC News -- UK)
BBC picks actor-director to play hunchback agent of Henry VIII as it focuses on landmark projects ... The star and director of admired film adaptations of Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet last appeared in a TV role in the acclaimed 2002 Channel 4 film Shackleton, which told the story of the polar explorer's unsuccessful Antarctic expedition ... In Dissolution, Shardlake, who supports religious reform, witnesses the viciousness of Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries and has to... (Guardian Unlimited)
" Today in Business Shakespeare has been a staple of management training for a long time. But only in the last few years have programs been started that use Shakespeare's works to teach chief executives the vulnerabilities to which the powerful are susceptible. "CEOs are the modern kings and queens of the global world," says Kevin Coleman, a Shakespearean actor who dramatizes for chief executives how a mistake made in the global economy may have vast and unintended consequences. Ken Adelman, a... (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
Sometimes he would read from it to his soldiersspeeches from "Henry V" were always crowd-pleasers. "The one about 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers,' they always liked that one," Adams says. (MSNBC -- Terrorism)
Finally, in the director's seat, there's Kenneth Branagh, the one-time wunderkind of British theatre who has never quite matched the success of his first film, 1989's Henry V. In an attempt to refurbish the play, and perhaps to counter criticisms that he has a limited visual style, Branagh has created a very different environment: a cavernous, sterile, modernist art gallery or prison, with remote-control gadgets, surveillance cameras, monochrome walls, mirrors and vertical blinds. It has all the... (Globe and Mail)
Iraq also permeated classical productions, from Nicholas Hytner's Henry V to Katie Mitchell's Iphigenia at Aulis. Significantly, it was theatre, rather than our timorous TV networks or the arthritic medium of cinema, that articulated public disquiet about Blair's policy of "humane intervention". (Guardian Unlimited)
The actor was also seen onstage in Henry V and Macbeth, in Harold Pinter's Betrayal, Neil LaBute's The Mercy Seat and Othello. On television, he has been seen in the HBO film "Lackawanna Blues" as well as the made-for-television movies "RKO 281" and "Spinning Boris.". (Playbill.com)
Stirring rhetoric: 'The game's afoot:/ Follow your spirit, and upon this charge/ Cry "God for Harry, England, and Saint George!"' (Shakespeare, Henry V). South Africa. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Shakespeare also used the term in "Love's Labour's Lost" and "Henry V," but the Middle English usage dates all the way back to Chaucer. To shoot you forward a few centuries, Nuessel says the name was most popular between 1932 and 1978. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
apparently rooted in the Middle English chukken, or "to cluck." The term of endearment stands: Wallace, the eccentric inventor in the "Wallace & Gromit" films, sometimes calls his faithful dog Gromit "Old Chuck." According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Shakespeare also used the term in "Love's Labour's Lost" and "Henry V," but the Middle English usage dates all the way back to Chaucer. To shoot you forward a few centuries, Nuessel says the name was most popular between 1932 and 1978. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
The Times prints the famous battlefield speech from Shakespeare's Henry V.. Mounting pressure. (BBC News -- UK)
Declaiming from atop her white horse, her legs now conspicuously parted as she straddles the jittery, stamping animal, she invokes God and country, blood and honor, life and death, bringing to mind at once Joan of Arc, Henry V, Winston Churchill and Tony Blair in one gaspingly unbelievable, cinematically climactic moment. The queenly body quakes as history and fantasy explode. (International Herald Tribune)
Geoffrey Streatfeild, who is currently in rehearsals to play Henry V, will appear in the channel's buildup coverage, performing extracts from Henry's speeches on the eve of battle against the French. In France, president Nicolas Sarkozy has milked his new-found love of rugby and its "French values", making the most of visits to the team's changing rooms and text-messaging the French coach daily. (Guardian Unlimited)
-Kenneth Branagh, director of the new Sleuth, both starred in and directed films of Hamlet and Henry V. So did Olivier. -Jude Law, who co-stars in the new Sleuth, has appeared in a movie with Olivier, who died in 1989. (USA Today)
Blanchett suits up in armors to give her troops a pep talk; the speech is a lukewarm rip-off of the big St. Crispins Day monologue in Shakespeares Henry V, but the scene does offer the sight of both Elizabeth and her horse wearing great wigs. Raleigh, meanwhile, does a saucy lean against the mast of his ship while sailing out to fight the Spanish, as though Owen were impersonating Fabio on the cover of bodice-ripping historical romance novel. (MSNBC -- Movies)
One day last summer, San Diego City Attorney Michael Aguirre summoned several staff lawyers into his office and then, while lying on his couch, began reading excerpts from Shakespeare's Henry V. ... He'd read ('Henry V'); he'd go on a tangent about George Washington. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
In a career that spanned more than 50 years, Grizzard played Hamlet, Henry V and President John Adams. He was Big Daddy in Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," a highly principled college professor in A.R. Gurney's "Another Antigone," and he conversed with human-size lizards in Edward Albee's "Seascape.". (Los Angeles Times)
In Coronation Street (ITV1) Kevin, the car mechanic, went to see Henry V and found his soul stirred as if with a mighty spoon. "You know who he reminds me of? Tony Soprano. You know you should probably hate him because of the stuff he does but you know he's only doing it because he's like leader of all the other men. I bet, underneath it all, he's a decent feller." Discuss doubtfully. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Henry V is at a junction of the Heroes and Warriors lines and pairs of happy lovers are gathered in what would be the Theydon Bois and Hainault regions of the Central line. Rosalind and Orlando (As You Like It) and Viola and Orsino (Twelfth Night) are accompanied by unisex toilet signs to indicate the sexual ambiguity of the plays. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
The show served as a roll call of Olivier's signature moments, whether as Hamlet and Henry V on screen, in Strindberg's "Dance of Death" or in John Osborne's "The Entertainer." That last play showed the willingness of a man steeped in the classics to turn his attention toward the contemporary. To that end, it's telling that Olivier's final stage performance, in 1973, was not in Chekhov or Ibsen but as a feisty Glaswegian in Trevor Griffiths's "The Party.". (International Herald Tribune)
Laurie responds: No, it's a speech from Henry V.. Sponsored Links. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
I have a speech from Henry V. -- Hugh Laurie, on what he prepared in case he wins, to the Fox pre-show. Posted on September 16, 2007 in | | Comments (0). (USA Today -- Life)
The digitally restored version of "Henry V," which was directed by Laurence Olivier in 1944, and Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learn to Stop worrying and Love the Bumb" are expected to draw classic movie fans. The festival will also devote a section to Charlie Chaplin, who passed away 30 years ago, featuring his major films, such as "Limelight," "Modern Times" and "The Great Dictator.". (Korea Herald, Korea)
"Branagh was brought into the Donmar season first and when he told Law about it, the actor expressed his desire to be part of the project."He told me he'd love to play Coriolanus, Henry V or Hamlet," recalled Branagh, "and the minute he said Hamlet, I could see it. "Branagh has been involved with Shakespeare's most well-known play on five previous occasions, including the 1996 film version he directed, scripted and starred in."But since I put the tights away," he joked, referring to his decision... (Toronto Star)
The book includes a good, short essay on Kenneth Branagh's "Henry V," and also has a fascinating take on the unpardonable vanity production about the Cuban missile crisis, "Thirteen Days." Stone played football at Harvard with both Bobby Kennedy and Kenny O'Donnell, two of the movie's protagonists, and he is very clear-eyed about the strengths and weaknesses of both men. Stone is the subject of in a famous Harvard anecdote. (Boston Globe)
"Hamlet was circulating 10 years before Shakespeare turned his hand to it. Henry V and Lear were reworked by him, and he was known to have collaborated with George Wilkins. So it's never as straightforward as saying he wrote all these plays.". AGAINST: "I subscribe to the group theory. I don't think anybody could do it on their own," says Sir Derek Jacobi. (BBC News -- UK)
" Almost as much a shock to her: she made last month's rent from performing.In two years time Connolly has performed in eight plays, eight films (shorts and full length), a music video and was an extra in two films. She's performed with the Boston Theater Marathon, Boothbay Opera House, Good Theater and Portland Players. Locally she was seen at the Ring in "Proof," "Sharp Dressed Men" and "Henry V." Reactions from others regarding all her changes have been "rather humorous," she says. Most often... (Seacoast New Hampshire)
For anyone truly infected with the spirit of the cause, missing the opportunity to go there was like missing the chance to fight beside Henry V at Agincourt. That desire to march into the breach likewise infected another participant at the meeting, Jon Schnur, who in 2000 co-founded New Leaders for New Schools, which seeks to recruit and train principals to work in inner-city schools. (Time.com)
After this, he played a small part in Kenneth Branaghs Henry V but didnt have another major Hollywood role until Newsies in 1992, a much-publicized disappointment that at least served to bring Bale some attention. From there, it was a tough but steady slog until American Psycho in 2000. (MSNBC -- News)
Fantasia and Fugue in G minor - Johann Sebastian Bach Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor - Johann Sebastian Bach La Rejouissance (Music for the Royal Fireworks) - George Frideric Handel Adagio for Strings - Samuel Barber Serenade for Strings (Second and Third movements) - Edward Elgar Bouree (Music for the Royal Fireworks) - George Frideric Handel Pieds en l'Air (Capriol Suite) - Peter Warlock Larghetto from London Concerto No 4 for Organ and Strings - Johann Christian Bach Touch Her Soft Lips and... (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Last month, in an Upper West Side park, the Gorilla Repertory Theater staged "Henry V" with scene-by-scene location changes and no advance notice: Suddenly, actors started speaking at different spots ... Shakespeare has King Henry V thank the director of events for victory at Agincourt: "Take it, God,/For it is none but thine! ... And be it death proclaimed through our host/To boast of this or take the praise from God/Which is his only." ... Shakespeare productions across the country typically... (Townhall.com)
Latest theatre reviews. From Tarantino to the Turner. (Guardian Unlimited)
Before Prince Hal becomes Henry V, he's an idle youth who wastes his time in bars with drunken friends. He's biding his time and waiting to shine, at one point even comparing himself to the sun that seems all the more dazzling when it finally breaks through the clouds. (Albany Times Union)
The tall, dark and handsome actor has also performed on stage, acting in John Kolvenbachs On an Average Day with Woody Harrelson, The Caretaker with Patrick Stewart and Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet and Henry V.. MacLachlan has no regrets about any of the choices he has made. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Not only are his adaptations of "Much Ado About Nothing," "Hamlet," and "Henry V" caked with dirt and burnished with natural beauty, they're pitched at a contemporary level of understanding. Branagh strips Shakespearean speech of its declamatory theatrics and uses breathtaking cinematic language to support the storytelling; and yet within all this casualness and accessibility, the Shakespearean spirit of wit and feeling survives. (Boston Globe)
All our national distempers and cultural fevers, circa 1954, are represented here: the self-deluding postwar victory complex and nostalgia for the great good fight (The Dambusters, Henry V); the post-imperial compensation fantasy (Goldfinger); the chinless emotional constipation of the English (Brief Encounter); our lovable and harmless eccentrics, gawd bless 'em (Withnail And I, Billy Liar) ... Or the stentorian bark of Olivier in Henry V, which soon will seem almost as mannered as silent movie... (Guardian Unlimited -- Film)
Better known for weighty roles such as Henry V, Falstaff and Richard II with Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company, Brown was celebrating his transition from "promising geriatric" to the star of a multi-award-winning Broadway musical. Brown, from the central Queensland town of Biloela, was thrilled to embrace the "mad, kaleidoscope world" of the musical comedy particularly one that has ridden a wave of international success and is slated for an open-ended season when it opens here in November. (The Age)
BFI Southbank will meanwhile screen a two-part season of Olivier's films, starting this month, including a digitally remastered version of Henry V.. . (Guardian Unlimited)
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I get to do my impression of Henry V at the Battle of Agincourt (with apologies to William Shakespeare). We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
In this volume he is clearly more Henry V than Prince Hal, more King Arthur than young Wart: high-spirited war games of quidditch have given way to real war, and Harry often wishes he were not the de facto leader of the resistance movement, shouldering terrifying responsibilities, but an ordinary teenage boy, free to romance Ginny Weasley and hang out with his friends. Harry has already lost his parents, his godfather, Sirius, and his teacher, Professor Dumbledore, and in this volume the losses... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
From his first days at Hogwarts, the young, green-eyed boy bore the burden of his destiny as a leader, coping with the expectations and duties of his role, and in this volume he is clearly more Henry V than Prince Hal, more King Arthur than young Wart: high-spirited war games of Quidditch have given way to real war, and Harry often wishes he were not the de facto leader of the Resistance movement, shouldering terrifying responsibilities, but an ordinary teenage boy free to romance Ginny Weasley... (International Herald Tribune)
LONDON: On screen he portrayed British military heroes such as Henry V, Lord Nelson and the Duke of Wellington. In real life Laurence Olivier performed some bravery of his own, risking jail as an agent for Britain. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Bell has performed roles in numerous Off Broadway Shakespeare productions, ranging from Juliet s nurse in "Romeo and Juliet" to the queen of France in "Henry V." She played alongside Alec Baldwin in the "Night of the Iguana" and Rosemary Harris and Marion Seldes in "Ladies in Retirement," both for the National Actor s Theatre. Bell has been the international spokeswoman for Poli Grip for the last two years. (Westerly Sun, RI)
The season kicks off with Goldfinger, followed by David Lean's Brief Encounter on August 7, John Schlesinger's Billy Liar (August 14), Laurence Olivier's Henry V (August 21), Robin Hardy's The Wicker Man (August 28), Michael Anderson's The Dam Busters (September 4) and Bruce Robinson's Withnail and I (September 11). The UK Film Council's Digital Screen Network is a unique scheme involving more than 200 cinemas in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. (Guardian Unlimited -- Film)
"But I think the Dumbledore's Army sequences really lift the film in tone, as you see Harry go from this quite reluctant leader to this Henry V character who is stirring up the troops. That should be a joyous thing to watch.". It certainly was a more joyous thing to shoot at least according to the actors playing characters practicing the 00004000 ir spellwork under Harry's tutelage (see ). (VHI.com -- Music News)
I mean, we say that every time, but this one is much darker, and I think Dumbledore's Army really lifts the film in tone, where you see Harry go from this quite reluctant leader to this Henry V character who is stirring up the troops. That should be a joyous thing to watch. (VHI.com -- Music News)
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Something in the Third World. As speculation heightens about Tony Blair's future after leaving Downing Street, the epilogue of John Morrison's 2005 Edwardian school novel Anthony Blair Captain of School supplies a plausible answer to the burning question: what did he really do next. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
0, a modern take on Shakespeare's Henry V, and The Nina Variations, based on two characters from The Seagull by Anton Chekhov. By Jeann McCartin features@seacoastonline. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
After all, many theatre-goers feel uneasy at the treatment meted out to Shylock at the end of The Merchant of Venice, and much of Henry V can seem embarrassingly jingoistic a fact which Peter Brook deliberately exploited in his 1980s production, with the English army played by banner waving hooligans chanting F*** the Frogs. Are the problem plays simply the parts of Shakespeare we find unacceptable, so we label them as critiques of their own culture. (Suite101.com)
Recently, Loosley organised Shakespeare on Film, which featured, among others, Laurence Oliviers Henry V, Julie Taymors Titus (featuring Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange), Orson Welles Othello, Akira Kurosawas Throne of Blood, Richard III with Ian McKellan, Grigori Kozintsevs King Lear and The Taming of the Shrew with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, at the KLPac. Encouraged by the interest shown, he is planning another series of film, this time focusing on post-war British playwrights... (The Star Online, Malaysia)
In its 30th season, the festival lineup is Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V, and Love's Labour's Lost. Shows run from June 27 to Aug. 12. (The Pantagraph newspaper)
" Maybe a few people I know were not there, but I glimpsed the lion's share of VIPs, those who count, those who no longer count, those who will count. I met my hero, N.Y. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, going in, and the star of stars, Bette Midler, coming out. In between, the literati, the glitterati, the glamourotti, and a few plain old "rottis" were having a swell time kissing, hugging each other, clinking glasses and exchanging gossip. THE HOST, Sir Howard, was rushing the season in a light... (New York Post -- Gossip)
Howard introduced Tina and she hilariously cited Howard's ancestors as being the ones who fought and unleashed their arrows at Agincourt under Henry V. She spoke in her usual stampede of the English tongue, which, with her perspicacious train of Zeitgeist thought, always leaves some of us hanging on the ropes. I began reading the "Chronicles" and started underlining portions I particularly admired and enjoyed, such as: "For women over 35, glamour has three Stations of the Cross: denial, disguise... (Variety)
"If you think of, say, Henry V and A Midsummer Night's Dream, you can imagine Shakespeare writing a play that would contain both battles and fairies.". No matter how good the adaptation, there is a percentage of critics who will always find Tolkien's world of hobbits, dwarves and elves insufferably twee. (Guardian Unlimited)
Back in Shakespeare's day, when one's lineage mattered a lot more, the word bastard was so offensive it was often written "b-d." Contemporary readers might not recognize the power of a line like this one, spoken by Capt. MacMorris in of Henry V: "What about my nation? Is my nation a villain, and a bastard, and a knave, and a rascal?" Meanwhile, shit was once a standard Old English word for feces. Today, it remains one of the most versatile vulgarities in our language. (Slate)
" He obliged. And through the years, he's alternated critically acclaimed performances in plays like "Henry V" with movies like the "Scream" trilogy, and "The Manchurian Candidate. " Schreiber also received an Emmy nomination when he played a young Orson Welles in the made-for-TV movie "RKO 281," about the making of "Citizen Kane. (CBS News -- Early Show)
The first two movies he directed, "Henry V" and "Hamlet," were prestige productions of the 1940s that created an indelible association with Shakespearean cinema, but only five of his theatrical works and a trio of TV films were derived from Shakespeare's plays ... "Henry V" and "Hamlet" overshadowed two admirable Olivier performances of the early 1950s that still remain underrated: his self-destructive Hurstwood in William Wyler's "Carrie" and a cheerful, tuneful Macheath in "The Beggar's... (Washington Times, DC)
As told by William Shakespeare in his play "Henry V," we join the heavily outnumbered English army in its camp facing the French force before the battle of Agincourt. Enter the KING. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
This self-discovery required the overwhelmingly portentous and patriotic reality of World War II. Mr. Olivier agreed that a movie version of "Henry V" could be a stirring and timely spectacle ... Mr. Olivier's Academy Award nomination as best actor in "Henry V" anticipated his winning the Oscar two years later in "Hamlet," also named best motion picture of 1948 ... The "Richard III" DVD offers the best single supplement: an hourlong interview between Mr. Olivier and Kenneth Tynan on the latter's... (Washington Times, DC)
There may be a professor at Columbia familiar enough with Shakespeare's "Henry V" to recall the king's rebuke of absent men at Agincourt who "hold their manhoods cheap." President Bush put it in a slightly different way: "Your university may not honor your military service, but the United States of America does." Hear, hear. . (Washington Times)
" Even so, his performance as Coriolanus was hailed as "a pillar of fire on a plinth of marble". He moved to Hollywood, where he resisted moves to be renamed Larry Oliver, but enjoyed little initial success. The turning point came in 1939 when he appeared as Heathcliff in William Wyler's film adaptation of Wuthering Heights opposite Merle Oberon, following this up with the dashing Maxim de Winter in Rebecca. 'Shrewd cookie' Marriage to Vivien Leigh - star of Gone with the Wind - brought the sort... (BBC News -- UK)
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